Auburn Might Start Declaring More National Titles

Y'all remember Jay Jacobs, right? He's the Auburn AD who declared it'd be "un-American" if Auburn were held out of the national title game. (A game they lost, by the way.) Well, he's back and looking to take a page out of blood-rival Alabama's book:

“If other schools are using these same polls to declare a national championship, we should at least consider it,” Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs said. “I don’t think there’s a better time for the Auburn family to consider it than right here at the end of the BCS era.

“As we transition into another playoff format for the national champion, I just think we need to look hard at it.”

The 1910, 1913, 1914, 1958, 1983, 1993 and 2004 teams are all under consideration. Each finished undefeated or won the conference championship, or both. All were recognized as national champions by at least one national selector, which are used by other schools to recognize National Championships.

As the article notes, Texas A&M declared themselves 1919 and 1927 national champions to bolster their trophy case upon entering the SEC. Minnesota went as far back as 1904 to claim a title.

Where does the madness end? With Ohio State retroactively declaring themselves winners of every national title, that's where.

I'm retroactively declaring myself #1 student of my high school senior class.
I should have given the Valedictory, not that overrated Danny O'Brien kid. I got jobbed! My principal was a Papist! The school newspaper had an east coast bias!

I'm not rationalizing anything here but I wanted to offer just another perspective...there are a lot of people that do it. Lots of fanbases claim championships that they shouldn't claim. In my opinion, unless it was something like the AP, USA Today, or the now defunct BCS, it isn't a championship that you can truly claim. I don't know many of the old establishments, though, so I'm just throwing out the ones that have been used in recent memory, but you get the point.

no what astounds me is that you are arguing about this when before the BCS era there were many paper champions. The AP champ was so often not who the real champ should have been. Hence why they moved to the BCS and now we are moving to the playoff.
Since 1954 there have been two or more champions declared THIRTEEN TIMES! TWICE, THERE WERE THREE!
That is more astounding than your astoundment!

This whole discussion about Auburn is about them claiming dubious championships. That's exactly what OSU does when it claims it won the 1970 championship, when it actually lost the last game of the season.

actually it was. If you look back at past champions lists it shows all the accepted polls. Some years there were 5 separate polls that chose 3 separate champions in some years.
anyways, the point about ONE OSU championship that was claimed AT THAT TIME and not decades later shouldn't be an issue with a true buckeye fan. I like how you disclaimered that you are a buckeye fan but you feel so strongly about arguing the legitimacy of a championship that was shared with Nebraska, you know the state surrounding Omaha.
so really, there is a big difference and you are a closet case Nebraska fan no matter how much you like the Buckeyes. (I am not a racist, a bigot or do I label people, but I am a teamist and I am calling you a no, good low down non-buckeye. That's right, I said it!)

OSU fans (which to be clear, I am one) ability to rationalize claiming a national championship in a year that OSU lost it's bowl game is astounding to me.

Huh? Ohio State was awarded the 1970 national championship by the NFF. What do you mean rationalize? The trophy sits in the WHAC. The NFF poll champion is cemented in college football history. No one is rationalizing anything. What's astounding to me is that there are people who refuse to acknowledge this title.

It's good to hear that OSU is actually the only National Champion ever of all time in cfb as stated clearly above - on this day of our Lord January 31 2014 because:
A. It helps me win a lot of arguments I have with my wife &
B. Helps with recruiting (which I'm sure was Auburn's goal until they got the bad news that OSU is actually the only NC football team ever)
I'm going to celebrate tonight with an extra cupcake. I used to celebrate much differently & much more vigorously, but I'm older now & enjoy the little things like cupcakes & Viagra...it's a great day!!
This entire post is a joke. I never have 2 cupcakes.

"Do not pass me, just slow down - I can move right through you" Superchunk - Precision Auto.

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Any of this too. Stop using immediately and talk to your doctor. They can be the signs of more rare and serious side effects.

I dont always root for college athletics, but when i do (which is most of the time) I choose THE Ohio State Buckeyes.

Hey, hey, hey, - it's extremely hard for me to talk about my Viagra use. Straight up. When people make fun of it, it really gets my blood pumping - but you know what, I'm not some uptight stiff that can't take a joke so you guys can just go ahead & keep it coming!

"Do not pass me, just slow down - I can move right through you" Superchunk - Precision Auto.

Same difference. Someday I might write a book, "Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned on Eleven Warriors".
Then I'll promote it on the site and yell at anyone who has anything bad to say about it.

and while we are at it, I'm claiming 2012 Buckeyes as National Champions because they got a bogus bowl ban and really should have been there and would have easily beaten ND.
plus by finishing undefeated, its automatic! Print the T-shirts!

I remember '93; Auburn was under sanctions and couldn't play for a title or on TV. They finished #4 I think. Dirty, dirty program.
The best thing about '93 was that Bamer had to vacate their entire season due to sanctions. That has awesome rivalry written all over it.
If Bamer wasn't bad enough about claiming fake titles.

And then I told her...i'm no weatherman, but tonight's forecast is calling for several inches!

It's kind of funny/sad to think of how that 2004 Auburn team got hosed. Jason Campbell, Ronnie Brown and Cadillac Williams were a hell of an offense. I wish we could have seen them play USC instead of the Oklahoma team that got housed.

Dustin Fox was our leading tackler as a corner.... because his guy always caught the ball.

I'm claiming the 1998 Cub Scout Badminton/Shuttlecock National Championship. I went undefeated in my Pack 89 Tournament without losing a single game in any of my matches and never had the chance to play anyone in a post-season tournament from any other packs or dens... In my humble opinion, undefeated = national champion, so the 2012-13 Buckeyes deserve a title too.

What is this? A center for ants?!? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read if they can't even fit inside the building?

People from the south have always had a habit of revising history to justify themselves. Not surprising. Their obsession with mysticism goes back to the civil war and jim crow years. They always try to argue that things weren't that bad for blacks and slaves in the south.